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Saturday, October 20, 2018

Not Your Timing

I've been taking better control of my health and self-care since the beginning of August. Some days, it's an upward slog! But I'm doing it.

I finally found a new "why," and that's helping. I haven't really had one for a long while. I'm not positive it's an entirely healthy why, but it's strong enough to keep me going for now.

I've had a really good string of weeks' worth of weight loss, with 6 weeks in a row of 2lb losses. I know I was due for a mini-plateau. That's just how my body works. Lose, lose, lose, OMG YOU'RE GOING TO STARVE TO DEATH I AM NOT LETTING GO OF A SINGLE OUNCE!, oh we're not dead, fine, lose, lose.

Still.

When you're making the right choices, you impatiently want all the right results NOW. Even when you know that's unreasonable.

So I did lose this week... but it was 0.2 -- which is basically nothing but a good pee and not 2 lbs at all.

So today, I am taking solace and comfort in these things:

My food choices were on point.

I got 6 blue dots this week. (Which is WW-ese for 'I made reasonable healthy choices all week.')

I earned 100+ Fitpoints -- moving a crapton of firewood and running twice.

I've already mealplanned for next week until we leave for a mini-vacation.

I'm running again.

My leader/coach/longtime friend came up to me in line this morning and whispered, "I can SEE your weight loss" in my ear. I can't see it yet, so that was really really nice to hear.

Earlier this week, I was reading an Instagram post of a WW ambassador who was sort of in the same place I am today. She made great choices all week, worked out multiple times, felt great about the choices she'd made -- and the scale rewarded her with a 2lb gain. Suck!

But a comment someone left on it caught my eye: "Have faith. The scale has its own timing." -- And that stuck with me.

So, relax, Impatient Me. Keep making choices that you know are good for your body and soul. Have faith.